Work In Progress Wednesday. Here is my report.
Mandala
I have now completed every one of the four lines with yellow beads.
What's next, I wonder?
Hexablooms
I selected 61 more blocks, placed them and marked them with placement numbers.
Part of them will look like this:
Sunday Stitch School Indigo Stitch Sampler
#343 Open Fishbone Stitch in light green and #344 Persian Star Filling Stitch in ochre.
After spending hours ripping up the factory machine-stitched waistband, I finally managed to set the elastic free from stitches. However, it was still trapped inside the waistband as it had been fixed with a metal stud button.
There I stood with the newly bought elastic... and fumed: 'This is what I hate about metal stud buttons!'
In the end, I had to cut two slits and pull out the old elastic in order to cut it off as close to the button as possible.
I will treat the slits as buttonholes and work Tailor's Buttonhole Stitch around the holes, then insert the new elastic and stitch it down by machine across the waistband. I will set the stitch length to large so the next time I need to replace the elastic, it will be easy to unpick the stitches.
5 comments:
The hexagons look great! You’ve made wonderful progress on everything, including clothes repair.
If there were a clearer example of how modern clothes are not built with repair, or even maintenance in mind, I would hate to meet it! Well done for having a Plan, at least!
Your Mandala is luxuriously rich and amazing!! your additions just keep adding to the goodness.
And good photo of your new hexablooms, lovely!!!
Plus you are overcoming the repair challenge of the waistband!!! Excellent engineering.
The mandala is looking good.
Your mandala is looking amazing. How big is it? I must think about doing one on a larger scale.
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